Pioneering Impressionist and Post Impressionist Art in France

Sylvia Laudien-Meo

During the late 19th Century, a group of young French artists revolutionized the art world by starting to paint out-of-doors and focusing on the effects of natural light, daily, contemporary life and fashion, societal changes in the growing metropolis and using a new dynamic style of painting and sculpting with loose brushstrokes, concepts of the unfinished, cropping and fragmentation. Their new approach mirrored the increasingly complex dynamic of modern life and celebrated an increasingly more democratic lifestyle.